What Construction in Your Neighborhood May Look Like
What to Expect During Fiber Construction
As All West Fiber expands high-speed internet service in your community, you may notice construction activity in your neighborhood. Below is an overview of the steps involved and what residents can expect during the process.
1. Utility Locates (811 / Bluestakes)
Before any excavation begins, federal law requires construction teams to contact 811 to identify existing underground utilities. This process allows utility companies to mark the location of gas, power, water, sewer, and other infrastructure so crews can work safely.
During this phase, you may see colored paint or flags marking locations on streets, sidewalks, park strips, and other public areas. These markings may also appear in portions of residential property that are designated for utilities. These markings are temporary and help prevent accidental damage to underground infrastructure during construction.
2. Public Utility Easements (PUE)
Some construction activity may take place within Public Utility Easements (PUEs). A PUE is an area designated by developers and municipalities to allow utility providers access for installing and maintaining services that benefit the community.
Public Utility Easements are typically located along the property side of sidewalks or curbs and may range from 2 to 10 feet wide, depending on the development plan. Although these areas may appear to be part of a homeowner’s yard, they are reserved for utility infrastructure and access. Property owners can verify easement locations through plat maps available on their local County Assessor’s website.
3. Construction Process
Once utilities are marked and planning is complete, construction crews will begin installing fiber infrastructure in the city right-of-way (RoW) and designated easements.
During this stage, residents may notice:
- Temporary construction signage
- Small teams of trained construction professionals
- Crews working with hand tools and specialized equipment
Equipment used during the process may include:
- Vacuum trucks or trailers
- Horizontal directional drills
- Mini excavators
- Bucket trucks
- Duct and fiber reels
This equipment allows crews to install fiber efficiently while minimizing disruption to surrounding areas.
What Will the Finished Installation Look Like?
This equipment allows crews to install fiber efficiently while minimizing disruption to surrounding areas.
- Handholes
- Small underground access points that allow technicians to connect and maintain fiber internet service.
- Pedestals or Flowerpots
- Protective enclosures that house fiber connections and distribution equipment.
These components are part of the infrastructure that delivers reliable, high-speed internet to homes and businesses in the community.
Thank you for your patience as we build faster, more reliable fiber internet for your neighborhood.

Benefits of Fiber
Enjoy fast, reliable internet with equally strong upload and download speeds, perfect for streaming, gaming, and sharing without slowdowns.
Our network is built for speed and reliability, so you can game without frustrating lag or interruptions, even during peak hours.
All plans include unlimited data, so you can browse, stream, and download freely without worrying about limits or overages.
*Install requests after construction project is complete will result in installation fees, and timing will be dependent on construction crew availability and weather.

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Frequently Asked Questions
Pre-order service at shop.allwest.com or give our team a call at 866.255.9378 to complete an application.
We’ll install the fiber-optic line to your location, which will happen with as little disruption to area streets and your property as possible.
There are four phases in construction before we can connect your home to speeds up to 8 Gig.
1. Design phase
During the design phase, our engineers are planning where our infrastructure will be, getting permits approved, and making sure everything is laid out in detail for construction to get started.
2. Lay conduit
The conduit is the tube that houses our fiber lines, so they don’t get damaged while in the ground. We use a Ditch Witch machine to bury the conduit, which gives us the framework for our network.
3. Install Fiber
Fiber is the cable that brings the internet to your home at the speed of light. Once the conduit is in place, we pull our fiber through it. There are multiple fiber strands per cable, which gives our customers their own dedicated line.
4. Splicing and testing
After everything is in place, we do what is called splicing or separating each dedicated line of fiber and connecting it to a cabinet that feeds into your home. And after everything is in place, we test it to ensure our customers get the fastest speeds around without a hitch.
We’ll install a small box on the side of your home to connect the fiber.
As we place duct throughout your neighborhoods, equipment may disturb your landscaping. We use tarps and boards as protective measures to minimize messes and be mindful of your property. We also restore everything to how it was before. It’s our goal to be as minimally invasive as possible to all properties.
Don’t worry! If we are going to disturb anything, you will be contacted beforehand by a contractor. They’ll knock on your door and discuss with you when the crews will be outside your home.
If there is a large box being placed in the PUE (Public Utility Easement) we will contact the homeowner. Sometimes PUEs are back of sidewalk up to 10 feet, this is on their property, but inside a utility easement. This information is shown on all subdivision plans.
This box will be placed in the public right-of-way adjacent to the road or within the public utility easement (PUE). It is an access vault to the underground fiber conduit necessary to connect your home.
Please call our team at 866.255.9378 for any questions or concerns regarding construction in your area.
Yes! Contractors will replace landscaping and repair any damage to sprinkler systems. Contractors carefully dig or pothole to avoid damages in the first place, sometimes things are missed and those will be fixed or repaired as they were before construction.
All West has a public utility franchise agreement with your local city. This agreement allows All West to place a fiber network inside public right of ways to bring high speed internet into your home. All West places hand holes or 12” X 18” square boxes in the park strip on corners and throughout neighborhoods in key locations to serve as access points for homes and businesses. The park strip does fall within the public right-of-way which typically boundaries in developed neighborhoods one foot behind the back of sidewalks.
The machine cutting the pavement is a DitchWitch MicroTrencher. It cuts a trench in the paved surface areas where small conduits that protect the fiber to your home are placed. The trench is backfilled with a concrete-like substance after conduit has been placed. When conditions are warmer and drier, we will place a protective strip called mastic over all the micro-trench to seal the road surface.
We bore ducts in the grass behind the sidewalk, or the park strip, to install conduit to run fiber to the home.
Contractors will be calling Blue Stakes to locate existing utilities in the public right-of-way. This paint is water based and will fade with time. Water based paints typically only last a few weeks.
Fiber-optic broadband internet is the most reliable internet technology available today. It provides homes with a blazing-fast broadband connection. With fiber, you have symmetrical speeds, meaning upload and download speeds are equal. And, you’re not sharing your line with anyone else, which happens with satellite internet, making speeds during peak times of usage unreliable.
Fiber cables run underground and connect to the optical network terminal (ONT) in your home which then turns the light signal from the fiber into an electrical signal that connects to your router and modem.
A fiber connection allows us to provide higher speeds at more reasonable prices.
All West’s fiber internet provides blazing-fast speeds so your whole family can stream music and movies, game, work and browse – all at the same time. Fiber is the “gold standard” of broadband. Fiber is 10x faster than cable and allows you to have multiple devices connected and running at once. You won’t have to worry about buffering, lag time or latency. Fiber can support much higher bandwidths at much greater distances than traditional communication systems used by other cable companies. We offer a redundant, buried fiber infrastructure that provides faster, more reliable speeds than wireless infrastructures and doesn’t degrade with distance, bad weather, or topographical blocks like mountains.
All West Communications believes in delivering the best possible services to our communities—and investing in all-fiber networks is one way we do this. Fiber provides the ability to offer faster speeds and a more reliable, stable network, compared to wireless or satellite options. As a local company, we treat our customers as more than just a number. We look forward to serving you and your family for years to come.
One of the benefits of All West’s fiber network is the fact that we use a PON to G-PON system. This means that customers don’t share lines, which helps increase efficiency while eliminating latency due to network traffic. We also use a redundant network, which is a secondary connection that kicks on if your primary connection goes out. Think of it like having a backup generator, but for your internet service. This helps make your connection more reliable. Because we value fast and reliable internet, we also have enough bandwidth to help prevent latency and handle a high volume of customers.
All West Fiber believes in delivering the best possible services to our communities—and investing in all-fiber networks is one way we do this. Fiber provides the ability to offer faster speeds and a more reliable, stable network, compared to wireless or satellite options. As a local company, we treat our customers as more than just a number. We look forward to serving you and your family for years to come.
One of the benefits of All West’s fiber network is the fact that we use a 1-1 ratio system. This means that customers don’t share lines, which helps increase efficiency while eliminating latency due to network traffic. Our network is over built and upgradable to ensure that we have the lowest possible latency and can consistently deliver our advertised speed regardless of subscription rates. We also use a redundant network, which is a secondary connection that kicks on if your primary connection goes out. Think of it like having a backup generator, but for your internet service. This helps make your connection more reliable.






